Re: [SLE] gcc and ostream problem.

Andre Truter [10 Feb 2003 16:23:49 +0200]:

As far as I know, it was originally written on Solaris in 1994. According to the headers it was also compatible with gcc 2.4

This *is* ancient.

I now have gcc 3.2 on SuSE 8.1 and this is the compile errors:

gcc -x c++ -c -g -D_UNIX_ -D_GNUG_NEW_ -D_DEBUG -Wall -Wno-deprecated -I../../Include ../storable.cpp In file included from /usr/include/g++/iostream:45, from /usr/include/g++/backward/iostream.h:32, from ../../Include/objectcl.h:21, from ../../Include/storable.h:19, from ../storable.cpp:12: /usr/include/g++/ostream:256: parse error before '\xa'

I have googled, but I cannot find something to point me in the correct direction. I assume I need some compiler setting or something?

This seems by far pre standard C++. gcc 2.4 only had libg++, which has been out of date for quite some time now. gcc 3.X very closely follows ISO C++ and will thus probably reject quite a bit of such ancient code. It *may* suffice to change the header inclusion from something like to <iostream> and then sprinkling std:: prefixes wherever needed, but I guess there is much more work to do as for instance iostreams changed from normal classes to template classes. Is this source something proprietary? If not, I might be able to help. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de